You obviously like working with numbers Trish! Gives me the heeby jeebies just thinking of all those spread sheets
Agree with Katie about the sometimes ridiculous way races are designed especially for younger horses in WA. A few years ago I had a good filly who could not get a race against her own sex due to silly conditions such as minimum field of 6, there always seemed to be 5 acceptances so she had to race against the boys and I now have a 3y/o gelding who cant get a go in a westbred race because they want a minimum field of 8. There were only 10 horses in the Inter final...cant work it out.
Sometimes over here its shocking, last year we had a 2yo in Sydney & the 2yo races didn't stand up for close to 6 - 7 weeks in a row, they had enough noms at one meeting (8) & scraped it, other race noms twice were 6. So he had 1 run as a 2yo. He went to the paddock!!!
We had to send one to the paddock also. We were getting him trained and for weeks and weeks he couldn't get a start so we were paying training fees for nothing.
The debate about the Leeton Breeders Plate now has its own thread
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DCECMBER 2016
317 races across NSW ............... of those races 71 had No Third Dividend .
Yikes
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